b2c2chicks
Songster
We ended up culling the poor little fella...but I wanted to come here and ask. I can’t seem to find anything along the lines of this. Everything I research deals with adult chickens or Ascites. I don’t think this was ascites because it was from day 1, and it didn’t ever feel like a water balloon. I’m just curious if it could be some form of yolk sac infection.
The chick was born with a large hard belly. We kept thinking it would eventually subside. Chick was eating, drinking, eliminating, and acting fine. Yet it’s belly continued to grow. Just a solid, firm mass. We noticed the chick wasn’t growing with the others. At 4 weeks we decided to cull. It’s belly was bare because the skin and feathers were stretched so thin. We were concerned it would eventually rupture.
It was hatched from one of our own Black Copper Marans eggs, but was incubated next to a dirty egg from a 3rd party (See my post about the double yolker...users pointed out that the eggs were unusually dirty. This chick from that egg could’ve been contaminated by the dirty eggs).
Would a yolk sac infection manifest as a hard, growing mass??
The chick was born with a large hard belly. We kept thinking it would eventually subside. Chick was eating, drinking, eliminating, and acting fine. Yet it’s belly continued to grow. Just a solid, firm mass. We noticed the chick wasn’t growing with the others. At 4 weeks we decided to cull. It’s belly was bare because the skin and feathers were stretched so thin. We were concerned it would eventually rupture.
It was hatched from one of our own Black Copper Marans eggs, but was incubated next to a dirty egg from a 3rd party (See my post about the double yolker...users pointed out that the eggs were unusually dirty. This chick from that egg could’ve been contaminated by the dirty eggs).
Would a yolk sac infection manifest as a hard, growing mass??
